Serbian rector's phone infected with spyware during protests

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA digital rights group says spyware from an Israeli company infected the phone of Vladan Djokic, the rector of Belgrade's university, during the student protests in Serbia.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorCitizen Lab says it can confirm with high confidence that it was Pegasus, and its analysis was done with the Serbia-based SHARE Foundation.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorAnd this comes as Serbia heads into a tense election this weekend, with the student movement facing the president's party, which is seeking to extend its fourteen-year rule.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAnother analysis is underway on the phone of a prosecutor, Rade Bajic, who got an Apple threat notification in August.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSerbian authorities have denied being behind such attacks in the past.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorA threat notification in August?

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorYes. Apple warned him, and the phone was apparently the only one in the room being honest.